By comparison, C# has a more mathematical and scientific expression of ... Still, he worries that dev shops may abandon their Visual Basic code base as a result of perceived slights. "The question is, ...

The switch to .NET as the foundation for Microsoft’s development strategy made sense for new languages like C#, but it meant changes to Visual Basic wherein code couldn’t easily migrate from ...

Data variables in C# and Visual Basic normally define themselves by the amount and type of data they hold. The string type, with its ability to store 2 billion characters, is often seen gloating about ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces ...

Dan Chao explains how Pkl streamlines infrastructure as code workflows ... that the VB event syntax is very different than C#. In Visual Basic it is customary to use the declarative event handling ...

LOS ANGELES — While competitors are coming up with new, “modern” programming languages, Microsoft continues to evolve its tried and true languages such as Visual Basic and C#, with new ...

"By providing a new version of a COM-based Visual Basic within the Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft will help maintain the value of its clients' existing code ... C++ alongside C#, the language's ...